According to the 1930 census report, only about 13 % of #Lithuanians lived in rural areas, and even fewer—about two percent—were involved in agriculture.

Like many other immigrant groups, #Lithuanians have seen that the road to success in America lies with education

#Lithuanians, #Latvians, and #Estonians banded together in the interest of freeing the Baltic Republics from Soviet rule: their solidarity is especially evident in the creation of groups such as the Joint Baltic-American National Committee (1961) and other joint organizations.

Like many other immigrant groups, #Lithuanians have seen that the road to success in America lies with education

A number of #Lithuanians immigrated to the New World before the American Revolution. The first may have been a #Lithuanian physician, Dr. Aleksandras Kursius, who is believed to have lived in New York as early as 1660

In 1930 the U.S. Census Bureau listed 193,600 #Lithuanians in the United States. This figure represents six % of the total population of Lithuania at the time.

A number of #Lithuanians immigrated to the New World before the American Revolution. The first may have been a #Lithuanian physician, Dr. Aleksandras Kursius, who is believed to have lived in New York as early as 1660

Until the 1930 census, the U.S. government lumped #Latvians in with #Lithuanians and #Russians. Ten years later, the census counted 34,656 people of #Latvian origin, about 54 % of them foreign-born.

#Lithuanians have served in the American armed forces in every war since the Civil War; in that war 373 #Lithuanians fought on the Union side, and 44 fought on the side of the Confederacy

#Lithuanians were active in the formation of some of the American labor unions, especially in coal mining and the garment trade

#Lithuanians played an important role in the growth of the United Mine Workers Union and the United Garment Workers Union and were involved in labor unrest in the meat packing and steel industries

#Lithuanians, #Latvians, and #Estonians banded together in the interest of freeing the Baltic Republics from Soviet rule: their solidarity is especially evident in the creation of groups such as the Joint Baltic-American National Committee (1961) and other joint organizations.

Like many other immigrant groups, #Lithuanians have seen that the road to success in America lies with education